Tours to Indonesia increase ahead of Vietnam’s ASIAD men’s football semifinal By Dao Loan Vietnamese fans on their way to Indonesia to cheer for the national men’s football team, Olympic Vietnam, ahead of the quarterfinal with Syria on August 27 – PHOTO: SAIGONTOURIST HCMC – Vietnam will face South Korea in the men’s football semifinal at the 18th Asian Games 2018 in Indonesia this Wednesday. The event has created multiple opportunities for Vietnamese tourism companies to sell their tours to clients visiting the neighboring country. Dozens of major tour operators in Hanoi, Danang and HCMC are now offering tours to Indonesia. They include Hanoi Redtours, Bluesky Travel, Esperantotur, Vietravel, Vitours, Transviet Travel, Saigontourist, Fiditour and TST Tourist. The tour packages have been designed to enable Vietnamese soccer fans to travel to Indonesia before the start of the semifinal and return to Vietnam after the end of the match. The average tour price ranges from some VND12 million (US$516) per person for those departing from HCMC to some VND16 million (US$687) per person for those departing from Hanoi City. HCMC-based Fiditour is offering Free & Easy tours, in which soccer fans in HCMC can buy round-trip air tickets to Jakarta, the capital and largest city of Indonesia, for some VND9.5 million (US$408) per person. “Many clients asked us to buy them air tickets and tours to Indonesia after (the men’s football team) Olympic Vietnam won against Syria. Owing to the high demand, (the prices of) various services, such as air fares… [Read full story]